Since the Saturday Incident invalidated the WTNV Q&A panel on Sunday, I found it difficult to wake up that morning. It had been a weekend of high emotion, and it was about all I could do to dress, pack up my things, and stagger down to the hotel lobby before noon checkout.

We arrived at the convention around 11:30am. The ID check for reserved seating at the Welcome to Night Vale Live Reading was scheduled from 11am until noon, when the show itself was scheduled to begin.

As I write this introduction, DashCon 2014—the first-ever Tumblr convention—is less than twenty-four hours behind us, yet it’s already gaining notoriety as one of the biggest convention disasters to date.